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17 May, 8 tweets, 3 min read
Germany is reeling after violent anti-Semitic rallies have yet again brought the Middle East on the streets of Europe. Radical Islamists & other rioters clashed with police and in some cases went after reporters. Merkel & other leaders vowed to prevent this from repeating
Merkel pledged support to Israel's Netanyahu in the face of rocket attacks from Gaza and said her government would decisively crack down on protests that "spread hate and anti-Semitism."
Wolfgang Schäuble, the Bundestag president, called for legal severity against anti-Semitic offenders & said Germany must make it clear to Muslim migrants that they've come to a country where the "special responsibility for Israel is part of our identity." bild.de/politik/inland…
"Whoever spreads anti-Semitic hate will feel the full force of the law," said Germany's interior minister Horst Seehofer following the pro-Palestine protests that descended into violence bild.de/politik/inland…
But Jewish leaders say such statements have little effect: anti-Semitic offences reach new records each year in Germany, and the courts are generally lenient. The government advises Jews not to reveal their identity in public bc they might get assaulted
Similar scenes were seen in Britain, France (despite the government banning rallies), Austria etc
This is a video from the protests/riots in Berlin, with English subtitles of chants such as "Bomb Tel Aviv," and "Rocket after Rocket, Gaza becomes prouder and prouder."
*The Middle East conflict

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The US & EU said they would consider waving the intellectual property protection for Covid-19 vaccines. Here's a thread about that:
1.there currently are 3 major types of vaccine available: mRNA (BioNTech,Moderna), viral vector (AstraZeneca,J&J), inactivated virus (Sinopharm)
2. India, China and Russia are huge exporters of vaccines to the whole world. And the West is not hoarding vaccines - only the the U.S. was sitting on AstraZeneca doses, which it now said it would pass on to other nations. Vaccine makers produce as many vaccines as they can atm.
3. The most popular western vaccines are @AstraZeneca-Oxford, and @BioNTech_Group - @pfizer. AstraZeneca *does not sell for profit*. Germany's BioNTech owns the vax IP; it took many months for Pfizer, a giant, to learn how to make BioNTech's vaccine & then manufacture at scale
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“We need to ensure really high vaccination rates world-wide. Otherwise, no one will be safe,” said ⁦@BioNTech_Group⁩ CEO Ugur Sahin. Via ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/biont…
The surge of coronavirus infections in developing countries such as India amid a relative scarcity of vaccine supply means that the pandemic will keep spreading until mid-2022, according to the inventors of the first western-authorized Covid-19 vaccine wsj.com/articles/biont…
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Why Covid-19 vaccine rollout falls short of past global campaigns. Decades-old successes benefited from more trust in science, less political polarization, less complicated procedures. My piece via ⁦@WSJ⁩ wsj.com/articles/why-c…
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9 Feb
A majority of foreign-born Germans and their offspring now support center-right parties, a development showing how decades of immigration into Europe has transformed the continent’s demographics and is reshaping politics in unexpected ways. My @WSJ report wsj.com/articles/immig…
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Some facts on EU vaccine procurement:
1. The EU only ordered 200m doses from @BioNTech_Group & @pfizer on *November 11,* when it was already behind in the queue (the US ordered on July 22). The EU *refused* an offer to order 500m doses. Image
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3. Data indicating that BioNTech/Pfizer were ahead of the pack emerged already in July. On *October 6* the EU regulator EMA started a rolling review based on extremely promising late-stage trial data, which was obviously available to EU officials wsj.com/articles/germa…
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